The On Contact series is really good, and I implore you guys to check out more episodes. This one with Alfred McCoy, the guy who broke the story about the skyrocketing Afghan opium production post-invasion, is interesting too. Two great minds.

I've found the same thing. And funnily enough just this morning I was watching a years old news thing about government computers being used as sockpuppets way, way back - '05 after Katrina, when people were critical of the government's (lack of) response. So it turns out a favourite tactic of these goons was being extremely verbally insulting.

When you've got no argument to defend, I guess the only thing you can do is attack.

Reddit it is choc full of 'people' who have unrealistically human views now. So, so many of the people leaving comments are so pro-establishment that I'm always left wondering - Why haven't I met you in real life? You know? Not even my grandparents hold views like much of Reddit supposedly does.

I was listening to Dr David Halpin talk about the BBC the other day, and he described it as a significant component in a global propaganda network. Go to any hotel room in the world, pretty much, and the BBC is gonna be pumped through it.

The BBC Trust is headed by Sir Roger Carr, chairman of the largest British arms dealer, BAE systems. The trust is staffed by the Queen, and parliament to some extent, and is entirely undemocratic. The royals also worked with BAE to secure the largest arms deal in UK history - 5 billion - to Saudi, which is helping prosecute their genocide in Yemen. Google an article from the BBC about the royals, though, and it'll be about some new baby, or how the queen, just a nice old lady, looks pretty in her new pretty hat.

When it comes down to the crunch, the BBC is always on the side of the military industrial complex. And it is reliably anti-Socialist, anti-population, as evidenced in it's disgusting coverage of the popular movement headed by Jeremy Corbyn in the last couple of years.

It is a more subtle organisation than, say, Fox. But it is more insidious in this way: My parents believe everything that comes out of it; even friends of mine, my age.

When they said that Blair was vindicated by murdering the innocent in Iraq, it was obvious that the BBC, though no doubt containing a few intelligent, ethical journalists, is nothing but the guts of the war-whore telescreen that Orwell warned us all to look out for.

The BBC has 'minimal partisan bias'? Cardiff university found the BBC to be one of the most pro-war outlets in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. I remember night one of the bombing campaign, and the BBC said, "Tonight, Tony Blair's leadership has been vindicated!"

How can an impartial 'news' service say that in the middle of night one of the bombing campaign? A million dead. Many more displaced. I disagree with this with a passion.

It is ambiguous, yeah. His really conservative politics makes me highly dubious though. And the word 'war' - used by a conservative American, in the age of MAGA, is dangerous in and of itself I reckon.

He seems like a peculiar guy really. Wasn't he pissed off about immigrants a while back? A guy who has all the pie he can eat, and he's angry about some people hoping to sweep up a few crumbs.

Interesting point. Still, it's hard to revolt when you're struggling, living paycheck to paycheck. The risk of missing a shift and getting laid off keeps revolution at bay. If they turned off the spigot, you'd get a revolution right quick. Perhaps.